Liber Genesis, 8

1. recordatus autem Deus Nœ cunctarumque animantium et omnium jumentorum quæ erant cum eo in arca adduxit spiritum super terram et inminutæ sunt aquæ

1. And God remembered Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were abated.

2. et clausi sunt fontes abyssi et cataractæ cæli et prohibitæ sunt pluviæ de cælo

2. The fountains also of the deep, and the flood gates of heaven were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

3. reversæque aquæ de terra euntes et redeuntes et cœperunt minui post centum quinquaginta dies

3. And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.

4. requievitque arca mense septimo vicesima septima die mensis super montes Armeniæ

4. And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.

5. at vero aquæ ibant et decrescebant usque ad decimum mensem decimo enim mense prima die mensis apparuerunt cacumina montium

5. And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month: for in the tenth month, the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.

6. cumque transissent quadraginta dies aperiens Nœ fenestram arcæ quam fecerat dimisit corvum

6. And after that forty days were passed, Noe, opening the window of the ark which he had made, sent forth a raven:

7. qui egrediebatur et revertebatur donec siccarentur aquæ super terram

7. Which went forth and did not return, till the waters were dried up upon the earth.

8. emisit quoque columbam post eum ut videret si jam cessassent aquæ super faciem terræ

8. He sent forth also a dove after him, to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face of the earth.

9. quæ cum non invenisset ubi requiesceret pes ejus reversa est ad eum in arcam aquæ enim erant super universam terram extenditque manum et adprehensam intulit in arcam

9. But she, not finding where her foot might rest, returned to him into the ark: for the waters were upon the whole earth: and he put forth his hand, and caught her, and brought her into the ark.

10. expectatis autem ultra septem diebus aliis rursum dimisit columbam ex arca

10. And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove out of the ark.

11. at illa venit ad eum ad vesperam portans ramum olivæ virentibus foliis in ore suo intellexit ergo Nœ quod cessassent aquæ super terram

11. And she came to him in the evening, carrying a bough of an olive tree, with green leaves, in her mouth. Noe therefore understood that the waters were ceased upon the earth.

12. expectavitque nihilominus septem alios dies et emisit columbam quæ non est reversa ultra ad eum

12. And he stayed yet other seven days: and he sent forth the dove, which returned not any more unto him.

13. igitur sescentesimo primo anno primo mense prima die mensis inminutæ sunt aquæ super terram et aperiens Nœ tectum arcæ aspexit viditque quod exsiccata esset superficies terræ

13. Therefore in the six hundreth and first year, the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were lessened upon the earth, and Noe opening the covering of the ark, looked, and saw that the face of the earth was dried.

14. mense secundo septima et vicesima die mensis arefacta est terra

14. In the second month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth was dried.

15. locutus est autem Deus ad Nœ dicens

15. And God spoke to Noe, saying:

16. egredere de arca tu et uxor tua filii tui et uxores filiorum tuorum tecum

16. Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy sons, and the wives of thy sons with thee.

17. cuncta animantia quæ sunt apud te ex omni carne tam in volatilibus quam in bestiis et in universis reptilibus quæ reptant super terram educ tecum et ingredimini super terram crescite et multiplicamini super eam

17. All livings things that are with thee of all flesh, as well in fowls as in beasts, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, bring out with thee, and go ye upon the earth: increased and multiply upon it.

18. egressus est ergo Nœ et filii ejus uxor illius et uxores filiorum ejus cum eo

18. So Noe went out, he and his sons: his wife, and the wives of his sons with him.

19. sed et omnia animantia jumenta et reptilia quæ repunt super terram secundum genus suum arcam egressa sunt

19. And all living things, and cattle, and creeping things that creep upon the earth, according to their kinds, went out of the ark.

20. ædificavit autem Nœ altare Domino et tollens de cunctis pecoribus et volucribus mundis obtulit holocausta super altare

20. And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar.

21. odoratusque est Dominus odorem suavitatis et ait ad eum nequaquam ultra maledicam terræ propter homines sensus enim et cogitatio humani cordis in malum prona sunt ab adulescentia sua non igitur ultra percutiam omnem animantem sicut feci

21. And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.

22. cunctis diebus terræ sementis et messis frigus et æstus æstas et hiemps nox et dies non requiescent

22. All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall not cease.